A year after Christine Porath, Ph.D. pitched a book about the power building connections with other people has to cure loneliness and isolation, an unexpected plot-twist occurred: the pandemic hit and people were forced to isolate and became lonely. Porath included. She wrote a majority of that book, “Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together […]
Mother’s Day is around the corner, but do you really need a special occasion to buy a cookbook? I know I don’t. Speaking as someone whose office and kitchen are stacked with cookbooks on every conceivable surface, I confess I have a bit of a problem. Yes, I check out recipes online, and cook from […]
Mother’s Day is around the corner, but do you really need a special occasion to buy a cookbook? I know I don’t. Speaking as someone whose office and kitchen are stacked with cookbooks on every conceivable surface, I confess I have a bit of a problem. Yes, I check out recipes online, and cook from […]
Raquel Salas Rivera’s sixth poetry collection, antes que isla es volcan/before island is volcano, looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty and hope, and promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English, this collection daringly […]
Award-winning author Lisa Barr is back in the game with her latest book, Woman on Fire, a thrilling novel sure to become a bestseller. How big is the buzz on this book? Hollywood legend Sharon Stone has already optioned the rights for a film adaptation that she will produce and star in, and both Katie […]
On Jan. 31, the Family Action Network presented a virtual event, featuring author Laura Coates, CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, as she promotes her book, “Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness.” Coates was in conversation with Emily Bazelon, staff writer for New York Times Magazine and co-host of the podcast, “Slate […]
When Jonathan Meiburg received a fellowship to visit the Falkland Islands 25 years ago, he didn’t expect he would meet an animal that would change his life. But while there he encountered a species of handsome, incredibly social and oddly crow-like falcon that Charles Darwin had first come across in 1833. The birds were so […]
When Jonathan Meiburg received a fellowship to visit the Falkland Islands 25 years ago, he didn’t expect he would meet an animal that would change his life. But while there he encountered a species of handsome, incredibly social and oddly crow-like falcon that Charles Darwin had first come across in 1833. The birds were so […]
When Isabel Allende learned her grandfather was dying on January 8, 1981, she began to pen a spiritual letter addressed to him, assuming he would not live to read it. Allende says she wrote the first words in a trance, “Barrabas came to us by sea,” not knowing what they meant. In political exile from […]
When Isabel Allende learned her grandfather was dying on January 8, 1981, she began to pen a spiritual letter addressed to him, assuming he would not live to read it. Allende says she wrote the first words in a trance, “Barrabas came to us by sea,” not knowing what they meant. In political exile from […]
